Comments on: Snaptalent Targets Job Candidates Where They Work and Spend Time Online

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Job Boards Are So Over. TalentSeekr Targets And Recruits Through Ads Instead. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:34 +0000

[...] both large companies (Monster has its Career Ad Network) and small. A Y Combinator company called SnapTalent tried this before shifting over to career fairs, and ultimately deadpooling (their site is no longer online). [...]

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[...] Snaptalent Targets Job Candidates Where They Work and Spend TimeOnline [...]

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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:38:04 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Tags: , online job board, snaptalent, ycombinatorPosted under Web 2.0 [...]

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:35:37 +0000

SnapTalent is definitely a blow of fresh air on an industry that has been stagnant for a while… Although it is still in its early days, I bet these guys mean real business – especially since they are already revolutionizing this extremely lucrative industry! I will certainly be keeping an eye on their ads and hopefully, sometime soon, advertise using their awesome new technology.

Btw does anyone know how I can get some shares of this company?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:47:22 +0000

While the idea is interesting, as it it is is more of a novelty. You can already target the same people using other ad server platforms including Ad Words, Yahoo’s Overture, and Facebook’s targeted advertising platform. The difference with Facebook’s advertising platform is that you can target potential employees based on many other criteria.

Bob
Jobmatchbox.com

By: Matt Robinson

Matt Robinson — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:48:06 +0000

This is a great team with a promising new model for recruitment advertising:

– Highly effective approach for targeting both active and passive candidates where they spend time online

– One of the best content-relevant monetization models for bloggers available

– Makes job ads fun and truly engaging

I am with commenter #33 here, predicting a successful business

By: Miracle Blade

Miracle Blade — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:19:40 +0000

It’s a good idea. Ads display goods and services. Why not potential employees?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:58:41 +0000

This is far from a new idea. Other examples:

Hidden Network (http://hiddennetwork.com) launched in October of 2006.

Authentic Jobs (http://authenticjobs.com) has also been around since October 2006.

By: jc

jc — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:36:02 +0000

I predict an easy success. No need to even look at the software.

By: Evan Ingam

Evan Ingam — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:30:37 +0000

Isn’t Monster already there?

Monster has a Career Ad Network product that is apparently fairly successful for employers who use it. It does exactly this. In fact, the following is from their website: “Monster’s Career Ad Network transforms your existing Job Postings into dynamic hiring ads, then strategically places them on our vast network and diverse partner sites to attract the most qualified active and passive candidates who match your sourcing criteria.”

By: Clark Valberg

Clark Valberg — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:09:52 +0000

I released something very similar to this about 3 years ago. It’s mainly focused on Adobe technologies (ColdFusion, Flex, AIR). We use two different sized Flex-based widgets that publishers can install to their website or blog (widgets.developercircuit.com).

By: Venus

Venus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:21:33 +0000

this is what you cover? give me a break. first the app does nothing new, two stop pandering to yc.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:49 +0000

Vista | IE7 – Frontpage CSS is out, it’s all jumbled. Couldn’t link to anything. Doesn’t work…!

By: ogsolution

ogsolution — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:32:04 +0000

Should be a great widget for sites like mine where I share web lingo knowledge. People learning new stuff is more likely to look for new job opportunity.

It would be nice if there’s a wordpress plug-in made for it.

By: Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:23:01 +0000

Interesting model.

Was able to successfully post an ad for developers for my startup.

Sumon: points for keeping your servers up despite being TechCrunched. Good luck!

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:06:36 +0000

This looks good and I think will be appropriate for my blog.

By: Sam Purtill

Sam Purtill — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:52:44 +0000

Way to go guys, congrats on the launch.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:29:29 +0000

How long until major employers of programmers and other talent being targeted start blocking these ads on their networks?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:52:03 +0000

yeah saw these guys on younoodle

sounds like a cool company

By: sharpshoot

sharpshoot — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:22:56 +0000

@ dave – we’re a real business solving a real problem.

Sumon

Snaptalent CEO & Founder

By: DaveS

DaveS — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:20:22 +0000

Please, no more YC “startups”. All these YC websites are like a joke.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:07:36 +0000

2 thoughts:
1- Snaptelent should not be grouped with the aggregators, since aggregators are not about distributing job ads as much as a (better) destination site just like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs, but with more jobs
2- This is not actually a new idea. Both Monster and Yahoo have launched distributed job ad networks. Monster’s is called Career Ad Network. I don’t know what Yahoo HotJobs is called.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:46:50 +0000

Im not affilliate with Y Combinator … just enjoy seeing new and innovative tech!

By: weeee

weeee — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:32:16 +0000

well, that didn’t post right. so here’s the source code funny bit:
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By: weeee

weeee — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:31:12 +0000

friggn hilarious (view their source):